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Man, shouldn't even have to write this
but I see over the course of time
people come along
and even trash talk on the review board.
Not going to defend myself or my GD memories
it is all intertwined
with my life
and to try and separate everything
into nice tiny compartments-- not my speed.
"If memories is all you get, I'd rather drive a truck"
When I write reviews I just write as the music plays the band.
What your getting is how my mind sees the songs.
Thankful I was a witness to some small part of it
from 1984-1993.
As I write now I just took in a sweet Rain & Snow opener
a B.I.O.D.T.L and now the Race is On.
A lot of Keith in this mix.
For perspective in 1973 I was all of 7 years old
I was raised in an Italian- American family
under Roman Catholicism.
I loved music from an early age.
Church hymns were a little too mystical
but I liked Country Music
and always wanted to listen to WHN (NYC)
"Pop in the button
let the top 10 play"
I was pretty removed from the Counter-Culture
I vaguely knew about Vietnam
Had an Uncle who served before TET
and still remember the names of the fallen
scrolling at the end of the evening news.
I came to identify with the Grateful Dead.
I got into Rock n Roll at about twelve
Kiss Alive 2, Aerosmith. The Stones, The Kinks
Wnew-Fm
I saw YES in the round my first concert at MSG.
I had brushes with the Dead
Friend going to the 82 show in West Palm Beach
He jumped off the school bus and headed off
leaving us all speechless
Midnight Movie in Greenwich Village
My girl made us leave after the U.S. Blues animation sequence.
Smoking up watching the Radio City shows on video.
Brent cracking me up when he introduced Franken & Davis.
Really nice B.E.Women, Good Jack Straw- i pick up Phil in the backing vocals on both songs.
I dropped for the first time in 1983 with my first girlfriend.
I wrote some lyrics about the whole experience
Super Freaky! Leaves crashing with trails
followed closely by the October sunset.
"Old Ball of Fire laid itself down
I saw it crash and burn"
I went to summer camp working in a kitchen. Summer of 84
Got turned on to the Dead by kind new friends.
We saw Garcia in a little Community College Upstate N.Y.
and I was all in.
In fact i went into the summer of 84 a metal head
and ended up DEAD to the core.
Phil rumblings in Ramble on Rose.
El Paso just perfect.
Row Jimmy
I attended Queens College
mainly because I didn't know what else to do with myself.
It took me eleven and a half years to get my degree
which averaged like 20 to 25 shows a years
I had a blast and guess I wouldn't change most of it
well except for the death of my Grandma,
the loss of Brent and Jerry.
They never played Row Jimmy in the last ballad of the night slot.
The harmonies are breathtaking!
If I had to pick the best harmonies
it would have to be with Phil & Donna
and that is not always easy to find
because Phil stepped back vocally as Donna stepped up.
BIG RIVER is so tight in the early years
where they could easily play it either first or second set.
Later on it became part of Cowboy double shot of first set.
Deal-No better dance your butt off song.
Weather Report Suite-Bobby at his best.
If Weir ever let his guard down with the Dead
I think this was it.
This is well performed
almost feels like studio clarity
"same old friends
the wind and rain"
Let it grow became a first set closer
and it was great at building excitement.
Every once in a while it ventured into Set Two
just enough to be extremely special
The jam in Let It Grow is strong!
(As has been stated , nice separation of instruments)
It pains me that the GD-Forum is dying a slow death.
It was such a vibrant and happening space at one time.
It will end up like the LMA -Forum if things don't change.
Well, I guess there is still great music going up
at the LMA-archive
I was so glad when I got my life sorted out.
and put away all the distractions
wasted days & nights
that the music of the Grateful Dead still resonated with me.
"Don't say I didn't warn you
If your train gets lost"
Wow, Wharf Rat to open Set Two.
Talk about a rarity
Half-Step-one of my personal favorites!
The day Garcia passed I was boogie boarding
on Long Island.
The Waves had absolutely kicked my ass.
I get in the car and the radio station is playing GD
that they never played anymore on the radio
and at some point the announcer says
Jerry Garcia...
"Across the Rio Grande"
I don't know how I drove all the way home that day.
I was weeping bitterly.
I had gone into the Army in late 93
and here it was 95
I was hopeful that my path
would one day cross with Jerry again.
but there it was--- NOT in this lifetime"He's Gone"
I moved down to Florida in the icy winter of 95.
A change of scenery a new girlfriend
who would become my wife
nice transition from Half Step>Playin'
She filled in the holes in my later GD experience
She was in Tampa for the last show in Florida 95
Beautiful Person got a terminal malignant brain tumor
actually the doc told me most folks who got this tumor ,
it happened in child hood
and they didn't last long enough to become adults.
So even in darkness there is light.
Wow, this is a pretty unique PITB.
I really like the jam
Phil is all over it
Before she left this earth
she gifted me with a son
I took him to see DSO
then Furthur
it was not his speed
but he understands the complexity of his dad
by having gone to a few shows growing up.
Oh yeah New Years Eve At the Bill Graham/SF Civic
Back to 2001 the planes crashed into the towers
just as my wife and I were opening up a Health Food Store
in Cedarville Ohio.
Playing jam is getting twisted and deep
almost like a black hole.
9/11 An omen that nothing was Built to Last
but thru that and my wife's tumor
We cam to know Jesus as Messiah
The long expected Ancient of Days.
Friend if you have ever pondered anything I have written.
This is the one and only thing i know
JESUS THE CHRIST is THE LIVING SON OF GOD
and HE paid for all my shortcomings.
HE paid my debt
A debt that i could never repay
because the wages of sin are death.
Music getting spooky
not sure I can write thru this
Is Ned involved at this show
it sounds like his handy work?
CHRIST paid that debt
and how do I know that?
Because HE rose from the Dead.
That is Christianity in a nutshell
I unable to live the perfect life
that is God's standard
turn in faith to JESUS
Jesus lived a sinless life
Jesus is the atonement for sin
HE is the only reason that anyone can stand before the Almighty.
Nothing in my hand do I bring
Only to His cross do I cling..
The jam out of Playin'>Space
is really laid back
Somebody in Reviews it is Jerry riffing "Can't You See"
Not sure? but I sure love that tune.>
Into He's Gone- always amazed to track this song
from First Sets of Europe 72 in its infancy
to the workhorse it became in Set Two.
Anyway, I hope to see a lot of folks in heaven
When the Dead said "Go to Heaven"
They had that right!
I wish that for every person that I have ever met.
The Bible says "We are made in the image of God"
How terrible to not turn to our Maker
But many of us
"Bite the hand that bakes our bread"
And yet God still blesses
as the sunshine and rain
is upon us all.
But there is a reckoning
and each and every one of us
called to give an account
"And what will be your answer
to the ANSWER MAN"
Brother, Sister
"Today, If you here
the Lord's voice
Do not harden your heart"
because
"Today
is the day of salvation"
the reviewers giving this show
lots of praise are right on
great Jam in He's Gone towards the end
So I guess the big question is
The question I have to reconcile
in my own Head
Are you a Christian
and a Dead Head
and the answer is
I HOPE SOoooooooooooooooo.
Although to be honest
I am first and foremost a CHRISTIAN
but if it helps any
I probably am more of a Deadhead
then I am an American
I love our Nation
but truthfully
I have no clue what it means to be an American anymore?
and politics usually make me ill in a hurry
Not even sure what it means to be a Deadhead anymore?
I love the music but a key part of what i liked about being a Deadhead namely RIGHTEOUSNESS
seems to be long forgotten.
Anyway, there is the music
and as Truckin>Nobodies Fault
to my ear that was not the strongest Truckin'
but a long mellow NF- jam
A good spotlight on Weir's rhythm work.
So you got Wharf Rat to open
and Stella in the last ballad of the night slot.
"All the years combine
they melt into a dream
a broken angel sings
from a guitar"
Talk about living those lyrics..
and then Garcia leans into a solo
Sugar Magnolia- Ten years after my first wife passed
My Second Wife came into my life.
Timing is everything
And we both from broken families
got married
and gave all our children
some much needed stability
and of course LOVE!
She is like an anti-head
but she keeps me from getting over absorbed in the music.
Still, I believe in for better or worse
richer/ poorer
sickness/health
SWEET MAMA DAYDREAM!
How many people can say
they have heard a Morning Dew encore?
another rarity
Garcia with those Crazy Fingers!
Jerry Garcia, "See y'all later"

Went to all three . Very special shows with songs but played in awhile , while Donna on maternity leave

Really enjoying this one this fine Sunday Morning!
Wonder makes me think this special run (at BMH) culminates with this magnificent show! As great a set as I can think of... takes us all over, around and back again! Holy Shit...
Hard to complain about any such and such dates, shows, soundboards missing when this incredible recording is so easily available! I love new discoveries!!
Don't forget to contribute to the archive! or get friends with money to do so... if you cannot! No excuses! https://archive.org/donate/ <-- We should all be reminding each other with each overly excited effusive thought about some such and such show! and review!

The separation of instruments in this mix allows you to here the interplay between Keith and Bob. I've never heard that before. I miss hearing the aud. but enjoy more.

I'm Surprised nobody has mentioned that the Mind Left Body jam out of playing in this show is actually "Can't You See" by Marshall Tucker combined with Mind Left Body. Without a doubt! It was released in 1973. Garcia plays "Can't You See" while Bobby plays "Mind Left Body" with "Can't You See tweakings. Pretty freakin' cool.!!

amazing mississippi half step

This is a truly remarkable show; definately a Top 5 of '73 in my opinion. The jam after "Playin'" is truly remarkable, one of the truly great post-1969 expressions of the band's psychedilc roots. I love 1//30 as well, but I'm thinking now this one has the edge, with 12/1 lagging behind quite a bit.
That said, quit whining about what you don't have! Sure, it's nice to have the whole thing when it's a show you love, but if thant's your hangup, get the damn audience tape!
Sorry to go off like that, folks, but with all of the FREE Grateful Dead music in circulation, and with tons more available for easy purchase, I get a bit tired of people screaming like infants that they're missing a few songs here and there or that all of their favorite shows aren't available as pristine soundboards. With THOUSANDS of hours in circulation, the idea that you're somehow getting screwed because everything isn't available is absurd.

great great show, would be the stalking-horse for all other 73's if not for dick's cut and paste job, The AUD is still there, thanks by the way, but I have to take offence and rate this dick's 1 star. The idea of the releases are welcomed, and I'm game for the purchase, so long as It stays within the collecting sprit, finding value in the repackaging and remastering.
When you chop up a show, and then waste the parts that didn't make it, ??? (PLEASE repost the leftovers.) it's just mean and not well thought out.
I can relate to the idea that a shows highlights are always there, and that the typical left-outs, say mexicali blues or big river sound a lot a-like from other shows, but it's not right to rule out that the tune might be special to someone out there for the most obscure reasons. When a whole show is broken up, it stops being just that, and becomes a commercial, a sampler, far less pure and honest and exciting. If the dick's picks have no problem releasing two versions of the same song on one pick DP 14,, then they could surely find it in their hearts to get everything across once? And sure releasing all that is salvageable is respectable, but putting out all but a single track on 5-2-70 Cold Rain and Snow, which I believe was not damaged, frustrates the collector and reduces the integrity of the dick's brand. If Dick's Picks have not worries releasing a two or more from the same month, even week, May 1977, then why mash together the greats, 2-13/14-70.
Fact of the matter is, this music is highly valued by the many fans, and therefore money is far less the deterant, compared to the fear that supporting the dick's brand, only encourages further tracks to fade away.
I want dick's Picks to be the pride of Heads, not the Headake.

This has to be my favorite show of all time. The way the base and rythym come accross in this recording is just hypnotic, especially in Weather Report. The sound quality of the audience recording actually adds to the strange ambience of this concert. There is a real funky version of Dire Wolf, He's Gone, and Wharf Rat is done perfectly. This show is quite unique.

This is a warm, dark, and very mellow show. Keith is playing nice things on the piano, especially on the first set numbers, like "Ramble on Rose" and "Big River". There is a flawless Weather Report Suite to close the 1st set.
Second set is weird. Wharf Rat>Halfstep is completely strange, but it works. Playin' is the highlight. Very mellow, gets spacey, then all of a sudden Phil is battling giant dinosaurs, only to resolve into a beautiful jam.
AND they do a sweet Dew encore.